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(Amendment  3  to 
B.  A.  I.  Order  143.) 


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U.S.  DEPOSITORY 

Iwued  March  20,  1908. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


AMENDMENT  NO.  3  TO  B.  A.  I.  ORDER  NO.  143  (REGULATIONS  OF  THE 
SECRETARY  OF  AGRICULTURE  GOVERNING  THE  INSPECTION,  DIS- 
INFECTION, CERTIFICATION,  TREATMENT,  HANDLING,  AND  METHOD 
AND  MANNER  OF  DELIVERY  AND  SHIPMENT  OF  LIVE  STOCK  WHICH 
IS  THE  SUBJECT  OF  INTERSTATE  COMMERCE). 


Modifying  regulations  11  to  IS,  inclusive,  relating  to  the  prevention  of  the 
spread  of  splenetic  fever  of  cattle,  and  revoking  amendment  No.  2  to  B.A.I. 
Order  No.  143. 

Effective  on  and  after  April  1,  1908. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 
The  regulations  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  governing  the 
inspection,  disinfection,  certification,  treatment,  handling,  and 
method  and  manner  of  delivery  and  shipment  of  live  stock  which  is 
the  subject  of  interstate  commerce,  issued  under  date  of  March  22, 
1907,  effective  on  and  after  April  15,  1907,  are  hereby  modified  by 
the  revocation  of  regulations  11  to  18,  inclusive,  and  the  substi- 
tution therefor  of  the  following  regulations,  which  revocation  shall 
take  effect  on  April  1,  1908,  on  and  after  which  date  the  regulations 
given  below  shall  become  and  be  effective  until  otherwise  ordered. 

REGULATIONS  TO  PREVENT  THE  SPREAD  OF  SPLENETIC  FEVER 

OF  CATTLE. 

Effective  April  1,  1908. 

Regulation  11.  Whenever  any  State  or  Territory  located  within 
an  area  quarantined  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  for  splenetic, 
southern,  or  Texas  fever  shall  duly  establish  a  State  or  Territorial 
quarantined  area  different  from  the  quarantined  area  established  by 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  and  shall  obtain  the  legislation  requisite 
to  enforce  said  State  or  Territorial  quarantine  strictly  and  completely 
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within  the  boundaries  of  said  State  or  Territory,  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  will,  if  the  said  State  or  Territorial  quarantine  be  satis- 
factory, adopt  by  a  rule  said  State  or  Territorial  quarantine,  and  the 
State  or  Territorial  quarantine  thus  adopted  shall  define  the  limits 
of  that  portion  of  the  Federal  quarantined  area. 

Regulation  12.  Whenever  any  State  or  Territory  under  au- 
thority of  law  shall  establish  a  State  or  Territorial  quarantine  for 
splenetic  fever  which  differs  from  the  quarantine  established  by  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  for  the  said  disease,  and  shall  desire  a 
modification  of  the  area  quarantined  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
the  proper  officer  of  the  said  State  or  Territory  shall  forward  to  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  a  true  map  or  description  of  such  State  or 
Territorial  quarantine  and  a  duly  authenticated  copy  of  the  laws 
and  regulations  relating  to  the  establishment  and  enforcement  of  the 
quarantine. 

Regulation  13.  Cattle  of  the  quarantined  area  of  any  State  or 
Territory  shall  not  at  any  time  be  transported,  driven,  or  allowed 
to  drift  therefrom  to  any  portion  of  the  quarantined  area  of  any 
other  State  or  Territory  to  which  the  intrastate  movement  of  cattle 
of  the  quarantined  area  is  prohibited  by  the  State  or  Territorial 
authorities  thereof. 

Regulation  14.  Interstate  shipments  of  cattle  from  the  quar- 
antined area  may  be  made  at  any  time,  by  rail  or  boat,  to  recognized 
slaughtering  centers  for  immediate  slaughter,  but  cattle  shall  not  be 
trailed  or  driven  or  hauled  in  private  conveyances  from  the  quaran- 
tined area  in  any  State  or  Territory  to  any  point  in  any  other  State 
or  Territory  not  included  in  the  quarantined  area. 

Interstate  shipments  of  cattle  from  the  quarantined  area  may  be 
made  during  the  months  of  January,  November,  and  December  of 
each  year  by  rail  or  boat  for  any  purpose  into  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia, the  States  of  Colorado,  Connecticut,  Delaware,  Idaho,  Illinois, 
Indiana,  Iowa,  Kentucky,  Maine,  Maryland,  Massachusetts,  Michi- 
gan, Minnesota,  Montana,  Nebraska,  Nevada,  New  Hampshire,  New 
Jersey,  New  York,  North  Dakota,  Ohio,  Oregon,  Pennsylvania, 
Rhode  Island,  South  Dakota,  Utah,  Vermont,  Washington,  West 
Virginia,  Wisconsin,  and  Wyoming,  and  that  portion  of  the  State  of 
Missouri  north  of  the  Missouri  River,  under  such  restrictions  as  may 
be  imposed  by  officials  of  the  State  or  Territory  or  the  District  of 
Columbia  at  destination. 

When  cattle  are  transported  under  the  provisions  of  this  regulation, 
the  following  rules  regarding  their  movement  shall  be  observed: 

(a)  Cattle  of  the  quarantined  area  when  received  at  destinations 
outside  the  quarantined  area,  or  which  in  course  of  interstate  trans- 
portation from  the  quarantined  area  are  unloaded  at  a  point  not 
within  the  quarantined  area  to  be  fed  or  watered  or  for  other  pur- 


poses,  shall  be  handled  over  platforms,  chutes,  and  alleyways,  and 
placed  in  yards  or  portions  of  yards  reserved  for  cattle  of  the  quaran- 
tined area.  Such  yards  or  portions  of  yards,  alleyways,  chutes,  and 
platforms  shall  be  constructed  and  maintained  in  accordance  with  the 
specifications  set  out  below. 

SPECIFICATIONS    FOR   QUARANTINE    YARDS    AND    APPROACHES. 

(1)  The  outside  fences  inclosing  such  yards  or  portions  of  yards, 
and  the  fences  on  either  sid-e  of  the  alleyways,  chutes,  and  platforms 
leading  thereto,  shall  be  tight  board  fences  not  less  than  6  feet  high 
on  the  inside. 

(2)  If  such  yards  or  portions  of  yards,  alleyways,  chutes,  and 
platforms  are  adjacent  to  yards  or  portions  of  yards,  alleyways, 
chutes,  and  platforms  for  cattle  not  of  the  quarantined  area,  there 
shall  be  between  them  a  space  not  less  than  10  feet  wide,  which 
shall  be  inaccessible  to  cattle;  this  space  shall  be  limited  on  one  side 
by  the  6-foot  fence  required  by  specification  1  and  on  the  other  side  by 
a  tight  board  fence  not  less  than  5  feet  high. 

(3)  If  such  yards  or  portions  of  yards,  alleyways,  chutes,  and 
platforms  are  either  isolated  from  or  adjacent  to  other  yards,  por- 
tions of  yards,  alleyways,  chutes,  or  platforms,  there  shall  be  built 
and  maintained  on  all  sides  thereof  to  which  cattle  of  the  vicinity 
might  otherwise  have  access  a  cattle-proof  fence  not  less  than  5  feet 
high  and  not  less  than  15  feet  from  the  6-foot  fence  required  by 
specification  1. 

(4)  The  only  means  of  egress  from  yards  and  portions  of  yards  for 
cattle  of  the  quarantined  area  in  transit  shall  be  by  way  of  the  alley- 
ways, chutes,  and  platforms  inclosed  by  6-foot  fences,  as  required 
by  specification  1,  to  cars  for  reforwarding,  and  under  no  circum- 
stances shall  there  exist  any  connection  between  such  yards  or  por- 
tions of  yards  and  the  yards  or  portions  of  yards  for  cattle  not  of 
the  quarantined  area,  or  other  adjacent  premises. 

(5)  The  yards  or  portions  of  yards  reserved  for  cattle  of  the  quar- 
antined area  shall  be  so  located,  or  such  drainage  facilities  shall  be 
provided  therefor,  that  water  therefrom  will  not  flow  onto  the  adja- 
cent property. 

( 6)  The  yards  or  portions  of  yards  reserved  for  cattle  of  the  quar- 
antined area  shall  be  marked  by  a  conspicuous  sign  bearing  the 
words  " QUARANTINE  YARDS"  or  "QUARANTINE  PENS"  in 
letters  not  less  than  10  inches  in  height. 

(6)  If  cattle  not  of  the  quarantined  area  be  driven  over  platforms, 
chutes,  or  alleyways,  or  placed  in  the  yards  or  portions  of  yards 
reserved  for  cattle  of  the  quarantined  area,  such  cattle  shall  there- 
after be  treated  in  all  respects  as  if  they  were  actually  of  the  quar- 
antined area. 


(c)  The  cars  or  boats  which  have  carried  cattle  of  the  quarantined 
area  shall  be  cleaned  and  disinfected  as  hereinafter  provided  as  soon 
as  possible  after  unloading  and  before  the  said  cars  or  boats  are  again 
used  in  the  interstate  transportation  of  live  stock  or  merchandise. 

(d)  If  for  any  reason,  such  as  delays  or  wrecks,  it  is  necessary  to 
unload  cattle  of  the  quarantined  area  which  are  being  transported  as 
"Southern  Cattle"  into  pens  or  yards  which  have  not  been  specially 
provided  for  that  purpose  as  hereinbefore  indicated,  the  transporta- 
tion company  shall  immediately  forward  notice  of  such  unloading 
and  the  reasons  therefor  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Indus- 
try at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  the  premises  shall  be  disinfected  as 
hereinafter  provided. 

(e)  The  proper  officers  of  the  transportation  companies  shall 
securely  affix  to  both  sides  of  all  cars  carrying  interstate  shipments 
of  cattle  from  the  quarantined  area,  except  as  hereinafter  provided, 
durable  placards  not  less  than  5  J  by  8  inches  in  size,  on  which  shall 
be  printed  with  permanent  black  ink  and  in  bold-face  letters  not  less 
than  1J  inches  in  height  the  words  " SOUTHERN  CATTLE." 
These  placards  shall  also  show  the  name  of  the  place  from  which  the 
shipment  was  made,  the  date  of  the  shipment  (which  must  correspond 
with  the  date  of  the  waybills  and  other  papers),  the  name  of  the 
transportation  company,  and  the  name  of  the  place  of  destination. 
Each  of  the  waybills,  conductors'  manifests,  memoranda,  and  bills 
of  lading  pertaining  to  such  shipments  by  cars  or  boats  shall  have 
the  words  " SOUTHERN  CATTLE"  plainly  written  or  stamped 
upon  its  face.  Whenever  such  shipments  are  transferred  to  another 
transportation  company  or  into  other  cars  or  boats,  or  are  rebilled 
or  reconsigned  from  any  point  not  in  the  quarantined  area  to  a  point 
other  than  the  original  destination,  the  cars  into  which  said  cattle 
are  transferred  and  the  new  waybills,  conductors'  manifests,  memo- 
randa, and  bills  of  lading  covering  said  shipments  by  cars  or  boats 
shall  be  marked  as  herein  specified  for  cars  carrying  said  cattle  from 
the  quarantined  area,  and  for  the  billing,  etc.,  covering  the  same. 
If  for  any  reason  the  placards  required  by  this  regulation  are  removed 
from  the  car  or  are  destroyed  or  rendered  illegible  they  shall  be 
immediately  replaced  by  the  transportation  company  or  its  agents, 
the  intention  being  that  legible  placards  shall  be  maintained  on  the 
car  from  the  time  such  shipments  leave  the  quarantined  area  until 
they  arrive  at  final  destination. 

(f)  No  car  or  boat  containing  an  interstate  shipment  of  cattle  of 
the  quarantined  area  shall  receive  on  board  cattle  which  are  not  of 
the  quarantined  area.  Interstate  shipments  of  cattle  of  the  quar- 
antined area  shall  not  be  made  to  points  outside  of  said  quarantined 
area  where  proper  facilities  have  not  been  provided  for  transferring 
the  said  cattle  from  the  cars  or  landing  to  the  stock  yards  and 


slaughterhouses  without  passing  them  over  public  highways,  unless 
permission  for  such  passing  is  first  had  and  obtained  from  the 
proper  authorities  at  point  of  destination. 

(g)  The  cars  and  boats  used  for  the  interstate  transportation  of 
cattle  of  the  quarantined  area,  and  also  the  chutes,  alleyways,  and 
pens  not  reserved  for  the  exclusive  use  of  such  cattle  used  in  transit 
and  at  points  of  destination,  shall  be  disinfected  in  the  following 
manner:  Remove  all  litter  and  manure.  This  litter  and  manure 
may  be  disinfected  by  mixing  it  with  lime  or  saturating  it  with  a 
5  per  cent  solution  of  pure  carbolic  acid;  or,  if  not  disinfected,  it 
shall  be  stored  where  no  cattle  can  come  in  contact  with  it  during 
the  period  from  February  1  to  October  31,  inclusive,  of  each  year. 
Wash  the  cars  and  the  watering  and  feeding  troughs  with  water 
until  clean.  Saturate  the  entire  surface  of  the  cars,  including  the 
inner  surface  of  the  car  doors,  and  the  fencing,  troughs,  chutes,  and 
floors  of  the  pens  with  a  mixture  made  of  1^  pounds  of  lime  and  one- 
fourth  pound  of  pure  carbolic  acid  to  each  gallon  of  water,  or  with 
any  coal-tar  creosote  dip  permitted  in  the  official  dipping  of  sheep 
for  scabies,  provided  the  same  is  used  at  one-fifth  the  maximum 
dilution  (5  times  the  minimum  strength)  specified  for  dipping  sheep. 

(h)  Cars  which  have  carried  cattle  within  the  quarantined  area 
of  any  State  or  Territory  shall  be  cleaned  and  disinfected  before 
being  taken  to  any  point  in  another  State  or  Territory  not  in  the 
quarantined  area,  This  provision  shall  not  apply  to  cars  containing 
cattle  in  the  course  of  interstate  transportation  for  immediate 
slaughter,  in  accordance  with  these  regulations. 

(i)  The  regulations  relating  to  the  movement  of  cattle  of  the 
quarantined  area  as  prescribed  by  the  proper  State  officers  at  desti- 
nation shall  be  carefully  observed. 

Regulation  15.  (a)  Cattle  not  of  the  quarantined  area  which  are 
transported  interstate  by  rail  through  the  quarantined  area  may  be 
unloaded  therein  for  rest,  feed,  and  water  into  properly  equipped 
noninfectious  pens,  provided  such  pens  and  the  platforms,  chutes, 
and  alleyways  leading  thereto  are  constructed  and  maintained  in 
accordance  with  the  specifications  set  out  below. 

SPECIFICATIONS    FOR   NONINFECTIOUS    PREMISES. 

(1)  The  outside  fences  inclosing  such  pens,  and  the  fences  on  either 
side  of  the  alleyways,  chutes,  and  platforms  leading  thereto  shall  be 
tight  board  fences  not  less  than  6  feet  high  on  the  inside. 

(2)  If  such  pens,  alleyways,  chutes,  and  platforms  are  adjacent  to 
pens,  alleyways,  chutes,  and  platforms  for  cattle  of  the  quarantined 
area  there  shall  be  between  them  a  space  not  less  than  10  feet  wide, 
which  shall  be  inaccessible  to  cattle;  this  space  shall  be  limited  on 
one  side  by  the  6-foot  fence  required  by  specification  1,  and  on  the 
other  side  by  a  tight  board  fence  not  less  than  5  feet  high. 


(3)  If  such  pens,  alleyways,  chutes,  and  platforms  are  either  iso- 
lated from  or  adjacent  to  other  pens,  alleyways,  chutes,  or  platforms 
there  shall  be  built  and  maintained  on  all  sides  thereof,  to  which  cat- 
tle of  the  vicinity  might  otherwise  have  access,  a  cattle-proof  fence 
not  less  than  5  feet  high  and  not  less  than  15  feet  from  the  6-foot 
fence  required  by  specification  1 . 

(4)  The  only  means  of  egress  from  such  pens  shall  be  by  way  of 
the  alleyways,  chutes,  and  platforms  inclosed  by  6-foot  fences  as 
required  by  specification  1  to  cars  for  reforwarding,  and  under  no 
circumstances  shall  there  exist  any  connection  between  such  pens  and 
the  pens  for  cattle  of  the  quarantined  area,  or  other  adjacent  prem- 
ises. 

(5)  Such  noninfectious  premises  shall  be  so  located,  or  such  drain- 
age facilities  shall  be  provided  therefor,  that  water  from  the  sur- 
rounding area  will  not  flow  onto  or  through  them. 

(6)  Such  pens  shall  be  marked  by  a  conspicuous  sign  bearing  the 
words  "NONINFECTIOUS  PENS"  in  letters  not  less  than  10 
inches  in  height. 

(b)  Cattle  infested  with  the  Margaropus  annulatus,  or  southern 
cattle  tick,  disseminate  the  contagion  of  splenetic,  southern,  or  Texas 
fever;  therefore  cattle  not  of  the  quarantined  area  which  are  infested 
with  the  Margaropus  annulatus  ticks  shall  be  considered  as  infected 
cattle  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  regulations  governing  the  interstate 
movement  of  cattle  of  the  quarantined  area^ 

Regulation  16.  Stock-yard  companies  receiving  interstate  ship- 
ments of  cattle  infested  with  the  said  ticks  shall  place  the  said  cattle 
in  the  pens  set  aside  for  the  use  of  cattle  of  the  quarantined  area,  and 
transportation  companies  are  required  to-  clean  and  disinfect,  in 
accordance  with  the  requirements  of  these  regulations,  all  cars  and 
boats  used  in  interstate  transportation  which  have  contained  the 
infected  cattle. 

Regulation  17.  Cattle  of  the  quarantined  area,  or  other  cattle 
infested  with  ticks,  which  have  been  properly  dipped  in  Beaumont 
crude  petroleum,  or  otherwise  treated  in  a  manner  approved  by  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture,  under  the  supervision  of  an  inspector  of  the 
Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  and  which  have  been  examined  and  cer- 
tified to  be  free  of  infection  by  the  said  inspector,  may  be  shipped 
interstate  at  any  time,  subject  only  to  such  restrictions  as  may  be 
imposed  by  State,  Territorial,  or  District  officers  at  points  of  desti- 
nation: Provided,  That  when  cattle  are  to  be  dipped,  as  specified 
herein,  they  shall,  within  six  hours  immediately  prior  to  dipping,  be 
given  an  opportunity  to  drink  sufficient  water  to  quench  their  thirst. 
Shipments  of  cattle  that  have  been  dipped  or  treated  as  herein  pro- 
vided shall  be  forwarded  in  clean,  disinfected  cars,  shall  be  accom- 
panied by  certificates  of  dipping  or  treatment  issued  by  the  inspector 


supervising  the  same,  and  shall  not  he  driven  through  the  quarantined 
area  or  be  unloaded  therein,  except  at  such  points  as  may  be  desig- 
nated in  the  rules  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

The  interstate  movement  of  horses  and  mules  infested  with  ticks 
(Margaropus  annulatus)  may  be  made  only  in  accordance  with  the 
regulations  and  rule  governing  the  interstate  movement  of  tick- 
infested  cattle. 

Regulation  18.  Before  accepting  or  moving  an  interstate  ship- 
ment of  cattle  to  a  point  not  in  the  quarantined  area  from  that 
portion  of  the  quarantined  area  from  which  under  the  rules  of  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  cattle  may  be  shipped  after  inspection  for 
purposes  other  than  immediate  slaughter,  transportation  companies 
shall  secure  a  signed  statement  from  each  owner  or  consignor  of 
said  cattle,  showing  the  purpose  for  which  the  cattle  are  shipped. 
In  every  case  this  statement  shall  accompany  the  waybills. 


Amendment  No.  2  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  143  is  hereby  revoked,  to 
take  effect  upon  April  1,  1908. 


Done  at  Washington  this  seventeenth  day 
of  March,  1908. 

Witness    my    hand    and    the    seal    of    the 
Department  of  Agriculture. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  FLORIDA 


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